Stuart was sensational, as all our forwards were. They had a plan to come down our middle. They thought they could have some joy there but our front row was immense.

It's something I've not had the opportunity to play in before. It's also the first for some of the other players here but we're going into it full of confidence.

I prefer league to union but have no regrets about my time in Wales. Unfortunately Cardiff were rebuilding and we did not have any real success but I played more than 20 times for Wales in some of the finest stadiums in the world.

It was something we had thought about, so we just went out tonight and did what we had to do. We started well, they got back in the game, but we got the win in the fourth quarter.

I thought Chris had a good game because he had 11 assists, but sometimes Chris can get 11 assists and still get you 20 points. So I thought our guards ... did a nice job with him.

We had some really good performances. [But] we thought we would do a lot better than we did.